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Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama : Conceptualizing Identity and Staging Boundaries
By: Rebecca Steinberger
| Retail Price: | $121.50 |
| Booktopia Price | $109.35 |
ISBN-13: 9780754637806
Format:
Hardcover
Date Published: October 2008
Date Published: October 2008
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| List of Plates | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 'What Ish My Nation?': The Blurring of National Identity in Shakespeare's Henry V, Richard II, and Spenser's A View Of The Present State Of Ireland | p. 5 |
| Disseminating Identity: England's Sense of Self and the Irish Other | p. 6 |
| How Does a Text 'Colonize'? | p. 8 |
| Shakespeare's Richard: or, a View of the Present State of England | p. 12 |
| Resistance is Futile: Assimilation and the Celtic Other in Henry V | p. 16 |
| 'Past and to Come Seems Best; Things Present Worse': Appropriations Of Shakespeare's Henriad in Modern Irish Drama | p. 31 |
| Counter-Hegemony and the Abbey Theatre | p. 32 |
| Brush up your Shakespeare | p. 38 |
| 'A State of Chassis': Sean O'Casey's Dublin Plays and Shakespeare's Henriad | p. 40 |
| Strange Bedfellows: Religion and Politics | p. 49 |
| 'Something is Being Eroded': Peripheral Visions in Contemporary Irish Drama | p. 65 |
| 'The end of art is peace': The Field Day Theatre Company and the Culture of Resistance | p. 67 |
| Colonial Domination and Deculturation in Brian Friel's Translations and Shakespeare's Henriad | p. 76 |
| The Irish Erasure: Assimilation and Colonization of the Other | p. 83 |
| Conclusion | p. 95 |
| Further Reading | p. 97 |
| Bibliography | p. 105 |
| Index | p. 111 |
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